Livestock • Inducted 2000 Skoal Sippin’ Velvet originally named Abdallah, was sired by a direct descendant of the famous Man O’ War named Grand Admiral and the NFR bucking mare named Sweet Thing. He was born on the Hoss Inman, Flying I Ranch in Lamar, Colo. Abdallah became an outstanding bucking...
All-Around • Inducted 2000 Chuck Sheppard, born April 16, 1916, in Globe, Ariz., went to his first rodeo at 16. “I won some money, had fun doing it and I think that’s what amazed me so much.” From that point on Sheppard’s life revolved around rodeo. He grew up a cowboy,...
All-Around • Inducted 2000 Ty Murray’s childhood goal was to be the best cowboy ever and to be the first cowboy to beat the record of six world all-around titles set by Larry Mahan and matched by Tom Ferguson. His path to roughstock greatness began at age 2, riding calves. He...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2000 *Inducted as a pair with George Doak. George Doak and Junior Meek were destined to be together. Both started their bullfighting careers as a means of trading entry fees for the bull riding, although Doak also entered bareback riding while Meek chose steer wrestling and tie-down roping....
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2000 Joe Kelsey was riding bucking horses before he was old enough to compete, making his first trip to the pay window at 14. Kelsey went on to ride bucking horses competitively through the 1930s and 1940s, winning or placing at all the major rodeos in the...
Rodeo Notable • Inducted 2000 Cecil Jones, born July 2, 1917, in Menan, Idaho, began his rodeo career at 17, making a dollar a ride instead of picking potatoes. In 1938, he met Harry Rowell, marking the beginning of a lifetime relationship between the two and Jones’ lifetime commitment to rodeo,...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2000 *Inducted as a pair with Junior Meek. George Doak and Junior Meek were destined to be together. Both started their bullfighting careers as a means of trading entry fees for the bull riding, although Doak also entered bareback riding while Meek chose steer wrestling and tie-down roping....
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